Word: cowboying
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...violent minutes, the Dallas Cowboys seemed on their way to gaining a measure of revenge on the Green Bay Packers who had whipped them two years in a row for the National Foot ball League championship. In the first half, Quarterback Don Meredith rifled a touchdown pass to Bob Hayes; after that, he engineered a field goal for a 10-7 lead. Then it happened. Early in the third quarter, the Packers' Willie Davis crashed through the Cowboy line, grabbed Meredith's face mask and wrenched him to the ground, breaking his nose. The infraction cost Green...
...Buckaroos, but they do perform the material with simplicity and in a relaxed, folky manner. Woody Guthrie's socialist hymn to Pretty Boy Floyd gets an authentic bluegrass treatment here, and Blue Canadian Rockies, an old Gene Autry tune, will bring back memories of the Hollywood cowboy astride his horse Champion, galloping through "the golden poppies. . . 'round the banks of Lake Louise." Two Bob Dylan songs, Nothing Was Delivered and You Ain't Going Nowhere, are done with unmannered, country-elegant restraint and are improvements on the original...
...first one to speak out on law and order, about a year and a half ago," he said. "Now they usin' our phrase." That is regrettably true, but Wallace can console himself with the knowledge that no one else has ridden the issue with quite the cowboy abandon that...
...Kansas City firm, Oppenheimer Industries Inc., he maneuvers some 220,000 head of cattle on more than 100 ranches in 17 states. In addition, he is one of the nation's leading authorities on the arcane art of investing in cattle. He has written two books on ranching (Cowboy Arithmetic, Cowboy Economics) and co-authored a third (the recently published Cowboy Litigation, a 561-page tome on the tax and legal aspects of ranching...
AERIAL BALLET: NILSSON (RCA Victor). While most rock singers sound like so many caterwauling cats conjugating the verb "to be," Nilsson, 25, sings with clear honesty and lack of pretense. He has composed a highly creative rock-vaudeville show with all the acts: a tap number, a cowboy ballad, a torch song, and an acrobatic display of vocal jazz scatting. Altogether an excellent performance despite an overlying, oddly out-of-place air of melancholy that sometimes threatens to spoil...